We've all been there: You decide you're going to take a quick work break to visit your favorite site, and before you know it, your 10-minute break has grown to 30. MinutesPlease can help.

The simple site is actually really innovative: Enter the URL of the site you want to visit, set how long you want your break to be, and MinutesPlease will open a new window with the site you wanted to visit. When your timer runs out, MinutesPlease automatically closes the window it opened. You can browse as you normally would when you visit the site, so clicking to another page or a new site won't affect the application's ability to close that window when your time runs out.

Apart from visiting the site directly, the app offers two other ways to set up a MinutesPlease browsing session. First, you can just build your time-limit into the URL, like so:

5.minutesplease.com/example.com

minutesplease.com/1hr15m/example.com

minutesplease.com/1day/ (opens a blank window)

minutesplease.com/example.com (defaults to 10 min)

Alternately, install the MinutesPlease bookmarklet for a quick one-click solution for starting a 10-minute browsing break. Note: Make sure you allow pop-ups from MinutesPlease, otherwise the app's 1-minute warning won't work. If you need a little extra help monitoring your leisure browsing, MinutesPlease is a great option. If you're really serious about managing the time you spend on time-wasting web sites, check out previously mentioned LeechBlock, or take a peek at our top 10 distraction stoppers.